Clara E. Laughlin
Clara Elizabeth Laughlin (1873-1941) was an American writer, editor and radio personality. She was born in New York City and lived in Chicago.
Laughlin graduated from Chicago High School in 1890. She wrote more than 35 books. These included biographies of Sarah Bernhardt, Ferdinand Foch, and James Whitcomb Riley, in addition to an autobiography and several novels. She wrote articles for the Ladies Home Journal, and a series of travel books called "So you're going to."
Her papers are held by Smith College and were donated by her nieces.
“The great glory of travel, to me, is not just what I see that's new to me in countries visited, but that in almost every one of them I change from an outsider looking in to an insider looking out.”
Clara E. Laughlin
“I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto”
Clara E. Laughlin